AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 183, 10 August 1871, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Hares are becoming as great a nuisance as rabbits in some parts of Victoria. A public company, with a capital of £50,000, is being formed at Sydney, to fife out 20 whalers. An Agricultural Exhibition is to be held at Sydney this month. The reward of £30, offered by the Tasmanian Government twenty months ago for the first salmon caught in the colony, is still uuclaimed. It is estimated that there will be 3000 acres less laud in cu'tivation in Tasmania this season than last. Pastoral prospects iv the Wimmera country are splendid this season. Considerable improvements have been effected in the Royal Park, Melbourne. A 62 ounce nusnret has been found .at Wood's Flat, New South Wales. Hopes are entertained in Sydney that the diggings in New Caledonia will yet turn up trumps. In anticipaii >n of fiscal changes, £5J,000 was paid in Melbourne in two days in the shape of Customs duties. In Adelaide there were 525 personal applications for employment on the telegraph expedition Pearl-fishing is now a large and increasingly important industry ou the coast of Western Australia. A lucky resident at Dubbo, nimfld Penny, has come into between £30,000 and £40,000. It is proposed to establish a school of design at Collingwood. * • 75 per cent, of the lunatics in Vie- , toru are said to owe their madness to ; drunken ness, . - * A lady student is to go to the Melbourne, Uni varsity- Jb.is. month for ma- j ■fr-ic illation. " I • | A Mutual Clothing Cluh, on fche cooperative priiH-ijile, has been> .established at Fitzroy. i" Several members of the Melbourne •Stock Exchange have severely burned their fingera with shares ii* Tookej's .claim. A German uwlerfaber, living appropriately at Kilmore, has challenged a brother tradesman for having Biip- ; planted him iv a black job. He de•serves to afford him a job ia his own person. The fate of Buenos Ayres is causing sonic people .in Melbourne to think. ; that the drainage of the latter city Qught,to be looked after in earnest. The borough of Richmond's'agi^a- , ting for its p'roclatnatiou aa : a : eity.

The amount of clot'i manufactured by the Victorian Woolleu and Manufacturing Company, Geelong, up to the end of May last, was 253,855, of which 216,312 were sold up to that date. The full producing power of the factory, however, has not yet been employed. Reductions are still being made in the Civil Service of Victoria. Ten clerke received notice the other day that their services would be no longer required. St. Ignatius'e Church, Vauoluse, I Richmond, was burglariously entered the other night, and a few shillings contained in the poor boxes carried off. The value of the work done in 1870 by the children in the Industrial and Reformators Schools of Victoria was £8351 Bs. The amount of calls in mining companies at Sandhurst in one week was £5000 ; but the amount of dividenns was £13,500. At Ballarat an engine-driver has been fined Is by Judge Pohlman for causing the death of a Chinaman. A fashionable Melbourne physician is reported to have received a fee the other day " reaching the respectable amount of four figures." Hobsou's Bay, near the mouth of the sTarra, is filling up 'at the rate of nearly three feet per annum.. An address of sympathy to the Pope has been adopted by the Roman Catholic residents of Hobart Town,